When AWS went down the world noticed because AWS matters, when oracle cloud goes down, which it Does regularly, nobody gives a sh.. because oracle cloud irrelevant. Eat your heart out LE - you've failed! And no amount of stupid spam from oracle hr is going to change that.
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Things are not as bad as you have mentioned. Oracle will splurge on people/companies to get its business in a healthy state. You never know, AWS will face the heat in years to come, since it has everything to lose.
"This is sillyness at its maximum. What do you expect from Oracle ? To not even try ?"
The high paid VPs and directors want to try even though they knew they will lose the battle. They will try it for a few more years and continue to collect big bonuses before their retirements. But for the low paid engineers, why stay in a sunken ship? just go play with AWS, Google cloud and Azure, you will know why O has no hope.
played with MongoDB on Amazon, it's nifty
This is sillyness at its maximum. What do you expect from Oracle ? To not even try ?
mar 7 2017
Oracle Health Science lays off 10+ today (Phase Forward aquisition)
Oracle lays off 50+ from form ACME Packet aquisition today (Utilities GBU)
Oracle lays off 70+ from the Tekeleck aquisition today
No explanation to employees. Workers treated nice and allowed to finish out the work day.
@1brt - People are actually using the AMZN cloud databases. They are using Aurora - both MySQL & Postgres. They are using Redshift. They are using RDS - SQL Server & Oracle.
Oracle has a great database, but it's overkill for many applications when there is so much more choice out there now. They are going to find it very hard to defend their premium pricing in this market.
The Aurora DB is very buggy and has major architectural design issues - read the AWS forums. Some bugs will be fixed soon - architectural issues won't be fixed soon. MySQL is the most popular DB on AWS and will remain so for quite some time.
Oracle db has been around for 30+ years and lock down a lot of customers but this situation going to change. New customers will likely prefer Amazon Aurora db because it's much lower cost. Besides, AWS has 7 different databases for selection including Oracle db.
True, but poorly architected SaaS will kill our margins and profitability, will not make money for long
Although some of what is said here is true, Oracle will be a major PaaS player, especially in database. Amazon's databases won't be ready for prime time for a long time - read the forums.
Oracle can't even deliver a cloud product. A lot of hot air. Well where the f--- is it?
Well, we employees give a s**t. Sort of. We can't get work done. That's bad and good.
Good point! They can't admit defeat until they find someone else to pin it on. Like it's the economy or something.